I’ve followed your instructions, and everything seemed to be all right, but … there’s always a but … ;)
I’ve got a problem when STARTING a virtual machine:

VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel and execute ‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start’ as root.
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).

I got this
VirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel, e.g. virtualbox-ose-modules-generic..
VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).

What is I already have windows xp installed on my machine and I need Ubuntu and vbox to be instaled now.
Please correct me if I am wrong:
U need Vbox so that u can run applications that u can not run on windows OS that is installed on the machine. So, u create a virtual environment within w hich u can run some other OS. This eliminates headaches of partitionaing ur hard disk.
Assuming that I am right in my understanding, should I install Ubuntu first and then follow up with Vbox? Again, I already have windows xp on my machine.

The question will go back to yourself. Which OS that you will use most. If you mainly use Ubuntu in your laptop and XP for your optional, then you have install Ubuntu first.

If you work most with XP, then just install Vbox for Win* version and install Ubuntu in it.

The different when you have dual boot in your hard disk is the speed. It will slowing down your computer performance unless you have good processor and enough memory. Because you will run 2 OS in the same time.

hi…thanks to this article. i’m a newbie in learning linux and networking. i realize that virtualbox is a good ways to help in learn networking. because it run within another operting system.
thank you…

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